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mark_asphodelNo, I don't mean writing infused with meta. I mean, that's good. This is more like "I am trying to write I am making myself write OH GOD what is this 'fic doing it is not supposed to be about Aideen OH GOD while is this Aideen-story coming so easily and the thing I am supposed to be writing just NOT" (sob sob sob).
It's like a single sentence going neoplastic and consuming the host 'fic. :P
Anyway, since this is relevant to the Aideen-story I am NOT supposed to be writing...
I was looking up Glade's ending in FE5 to see if he became the Great General of Thracia right after the war or if he succeeded Hannibal at the post, which is how my headcanon had it based on Hannibal's role in FE4. Well, it sounds like FE5!Hannibal just takes a random post at Mease serving alongside Carion. What? Is there any Thracia-related detail in FE4 that didn't get altered in FE5?
Anyway, so what I did glean from Glade's ending was a reminder that my headcanon about Leaf ruling a military superpower wasn't something I just made up. "By transferring surplus members [of the 'overgrown' army] and introducing new weapons, he succeeded in creating one of the most formidable elite forces on the continent." So, yes, King Leaf has a badass army filled with weapons too cool for you to ever get in the game and oh yeah DRAGONS. That in turn raises the question of what the hell Leaf needs a L33T force of dragon stormtroopers or whatever for. It's kind of like the old FE question of "If we just had eight/ten centuries of peace, what's up with these massive standing armies?" Leaf's army doesn't sound like it's exactly for police work and keeping the peace, you know? What's Leaf planning to use his cutting-edge weaponry on? Pirates? Mountain brigands?
And what's Leaf's competition in this seemingly pointless arms race? (My money's on Agustria, Silesia, and whatever duchies in Grandbell did not have the shit completely kicked out of them-- Isaac seems more caught up in the myth of the individual warrior and Verdane lends itself more to guerilla warfare what with all those damn trees.) Though I gotta say, building up the army like that does indicate more foresight than just going "Oh, my cousin's the emperor and it's all good; all we need is some local militias to keep order." Sounds like the current crop of Crusaders learned from their ancestors that peace only lasts a couple of generations before everything goes to pot.
And Leaf (retconned as the Sage King, after all) wants Leaf IV to have dragon master stormtroopers with napalm bombs at his disposal when little Celice V gets an attitude and starts fucking things up. Though given that Leaf is the one ruling That Country With theWyverns Dragons, I remain convinced the trouble'll be flowing from the opposite direction. It's Fire Emblem-- the militaristic wyvern people are always the source of everyone's problems.
PS: FE12 actually bolsters my conviction that dragons=trouble in that goody-two-shoes Marth no longer gets custody of Macedon and its aerial threat-- the mostly unrepentant Michalis gets his dragon-land back.
It's like a single sentence going neoplastic and consuming the host 'fic. :P
Anyway, since this is relevant to the Aideen-story I am NOT supposed to be writing...
I was looking up Glade's ending in FE5 to see if he became the Great General of Thracia right after the war or if he succeeded Hannibal at the post, which is how my headcanon had it based on Hannibal's role in FE4. Well, it sounds like FE5!Hannibal just takes a random post at Mease serving alongside Carion. What? Is there any Thracia-related detail in FE4 that didn't get altered in FE5?
Anyway, so what I did glean from Glade's ending was a reminder that my headcanon about Leaf ruling a military superpower wasn't something I just made up. "By transferring surplus members [of the 'overgrown' army] and introducing new weapons, he succeeded in creating one of the most formidable elite forces on the continent." So, yes, King Leaf has a badass army filled with weapons too cool for you to ever get in the game and oh yeah DRAGONS. That in turn raises the question of what the hell Leaf needs a L33T force of dragon stormtroopers or whatever for. It's kind of like the old FE question of "If we just had eight/ten centuries of peace, what's up with these massive standing armies?" Leaf's army doesn't sound like it's exactly for police work and keeping the peace, you know? What's Leaf planning to use his cutting-edge weaponry on? Pirates? Mountain brigands?
And what's Leaf's competition in this seemingly pointless arms race? (My money's on Agustria, Silesia, and whatever duchies in Grandbell did not have the shit completely kicked out of them-- Isaac seems more caught up in the myth of the individual warrior and Verdane lends itself more to guerilla warfare what with all those damn trees.) Though I gotta say, building up the army like that does indicate more foresight than just going "Oh, my cousin's the emperor and it's all good; all we need is some local militias to keep order." Sounds like the current crop of Crusaders learned from their ancestors that peace only lasts a couple of generations before everything goes to pot.
And Leaf (retconned as the Sage King, after all) wants Leaf IV to have dragon master stormtroopers with napalm bombs at his disposal when little Celice V gets an attitude and starts fucking things up. Though given that Leaf is the one ruling That Country With the
PS: FE12 actually bolsters my conviction that dragons=trouble in that goody-two-shoes Marth no longer gets custody of Macedon and its aerial threat-- the mostly unrepentant Michalis gets his dragon-land back.
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Date: 2013-01-09 03:21 am (UTC)Pretty funny how Tellius juggles the ball with this one, too.
"Daein is the land of the wyvern knights!"
"... Though Begnion did it first. :B"
In any case, I'm sure Cuan is proud.
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Date: 2013-01-09 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-09 09:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-09 12:50 pm (UTC)It has to be. WTF do you need entire mercenary nations for? Giving every hilltop baron a personal bodyguard?
And Leaf's the smart one, compared to squishy Celice, so I think his militarization is understandable.
FE5!Leaf is rather more squishy than his FE4!self, but then again he's a little younger and essentially has to GET to his FE4 persona. And it's worth noting that by the end of the game, he's lying to the face of one of his allies (Miranda) and happy to keep the creepiest tactician this side of Izuka on retainer as his pet adviser.
Mandate of Heaven is still on Celice's side, though.
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Date: 2013-01-09 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-09 10:05 pm (UTC)(For all the ambiguity of Part 3, the game makes it fairly clear that Daein's in the wrong.)